Barcelona president Joan Laporta is confident that Tottenham Hotspur will finalise a deal to sign defender Clement Lenglet.
Clement Lenglet is being backed to join Tottenham Hotspur by Barcelona president Joan Laporta.
Laporta has been speaking to Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia about a number of subjects with Barcelona facing a big summer.
Barca missed out on Lionel Messi and are still looking to balance the books financially with players need to be moved on.
One of them is defender Lenglet, who spent last season on loan at Tottenham and cost Barcelona £35million back in 2018.
The Frenchman has no future at Barcelona and they would love to move him on permanently this summer.
Laporta is now seemingly very confident of selling Lenglet to Tottenham, as quoted by Barca Universal.
“I think we’ll reach an agreement with Tottenham for Lenglet,” said Laporta, seemingly believing that a deal is on the cards.
Joan Laporta’s confidence on Clement Lenglet move may be misplaced
Laporta seems confident on Lenglet’s move but we don’t feel quite so sure.
The 28-year-old was rather unspectacular during his loan spell at Tottenham and felt like a stop-gap from the minute he joined.
Tottenham weren’t able to sign a top left-footed centre back like Josko Gvardiol or Alessandro Bastoni, so turned to Lenglet to fill the gap.
Lenglet wasn’t terrible but wasn’t impressive either, and most Spurs fans would probably rather see Tottenham move on.
Fabrizio Romano claimed just a few days ago that Tottenham are ‘not advancing’ a deal for Lenglet.
Romano is adamant that Lenglet is ‘not a priority’ for Tottenham and they are instead focused on signing Edmond Tapsoba or Micky van de Ven.
Those two players make much more sense for Tottenham than Lenglet right now, who has limited resale value and doesn’t really improve the quality of the team.
Laporta seemingly thinks that a deal is on the cards but we think Tottenham should look elsewhere for a centre back signing this summer.
